Barack Obama’s Misplaced Priorities [Updated]

I noted earlier tonight that today’s votes in the House on partial funding of government operations were political theater. But that doesn’t put them on the same degraded plane as the Obama administration’s barricading of national monuments to keep veterans from visiting them. Glenn Reynolds has the links. A group of veterans from Mississippi knocked down barriers around the World War II memorial that the administration erected to dramatize that the “shutdown” was in effect:

Due to the government shutdown, National Park Service police put up barriers preventing access. According to Leo Shane III, White House and Veterans Affairs reporter for Stars and Stripes, the veterans knocked over those barriers.

Glenn sums up the administration’s disgraceful behavior:

Putting up barriers around open outdoor monuments was dumb shutdown theater and they deserve to have it backfire on them.

In short: the WH went out of their way to barricade an outdoor WWII memorial to WWII vets as a political stunt. Utterly obscene.

Barack Obama’s problem (one of them, anyway) is that he is so consumed by hatred for Republicans that it clouds his judgment. He is all politics, all the time, as he showed again today in his over the top rant at the White House. Michael Ramirez aptly sums up Obama’s view of the world:

All of which raises some hope that, despite Republican errors, the Democrats may overplay their hand.